Dimitra Tserkezou

Dimitra Tserkezou (1920 – 2007) was a famous Greek sculptress.

Tserkezou was born in Constantinople to a Greek family who then moved to Athens, where she graduated from the National School of Fine Arts (section: sculpture) in 1946; she went also to Milan where she practiced metal moulding art (1966 – 1971). Her first participation was at the 4th Panhellenic Exposition in 1952 and her two first individual expositions took place in 1953 at Thessaloniki (Chamber of Commerce and Industry & 18th International Fair of Thessaloniki). Since then, she developed a remarkable artistical activity participating at many “Salons” and expositions in Piraeus, Athens, Milan, Rome, Turin, Paris, Strasbourg, Monaco, Deauville, Biaritz, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Quebec etc.

Forty of her statues decorate public places and gardens in Greece (Athens, Syros, Chios and many other towns)[1] as well as many collections (as for instance in Zurich, in Vatican or Washington – White House).[2]

Her Art is neorealist and figurative in a simple, expressive and dynamic construction; her compositions are full of humanism (her subjects are mostly chosen in modern everyday life); she gives life to the hard materials of marble, bronze, cement and new metals.

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She died in 2007 in Athens, Greece.

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